Chromatic vs Argos

From $179 per month (Starter, 35k snapshots)

From $100 per month (Pro, usage-based, 35k screenshots included)

Snapshot-based billing: Starter $179 for 35k snapshots, Pro $399 for 85k, then Enterprise. Overage runs about $0.008 a snapshot. TurboSnap, which only re-tests stories affected by a change, is the main cost control. Cross-browser coverage beyond Chrome starts at Starter.

Pro is usage-based from $100/month including 35,000 screenshots, with extras at $0.004 each ($0.0015 for Storybook). SSO is a paid add-on: $50/month for GitHub, $200/month for SAML.

Free tier with 5,000 billed snapshots a month (25k TurboSnaps), unlimited projects and users.

Hobby plan is free forever with up to 5,000 screenshots; free for open-source projects.

Widely used

Chromatic · since 2017

Emerging

Argos · since 2017

• Zero-effort setup if you already have Storybook — stories are the tests.
• The hosted review UI is genuinely usable by designers and product managers.
• TurboSnap dramatically reduces snapshot cost on large libraries.

• Clean, fast PR review experience.
• Genuinely affordable, with a workable free tier.
• Open source, so self-hosting is a real fallback.

• Strongly tied to Storybook; without it much of the value disappears.
• Component-level, not full-page — it will not catch a broken page layout.
• Snapshot pricing still adds up on a big design system.

• Fewer integrations than Percy or Applitools.
• Small team behind it.
• Limited cross-browser rendering options.

Design-system and component-library teams already invested in Storybook.

Small and mid-sized teams wanting visual review in PRs at a sane price.